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for his celebrated work (SLIDE #39) [u]Old Kentucky Home[/u]. (SLIDE
#40) [u]Portrait of a Negress[/u] shows an old woman leaning forward
so as to rest on her walking stick. The portrait was completed in
1866 as was (SLIDE #41) [u]Fiddling His Way[/u] which shows a black
musician playing a fiddle in the hoe of common whites. (SLIDE #42
Negro Youth, 1863)

The talents of artists Emanuel Gottlieb Lentze, born in
Germany, Ferdinand Reichart from Denmark, Frank Buscher of
Switzerland and Thomas Hovenden, a native of Ireland, were joined with
a host of Americans of the pre-Civil war era and late 19th century to
produce images that mirrored the various ways in which Blacks were
viewed by Whites in American life. Ferdinand Reichardt's painting
entitled (SLIDE #43) [u]Philadelphia in 1858[/u] shows black subjects
among the city street walkers. (SLIDE #44) [u]Guitar Player[/u], 1867
is the work of Frank Buscher. Horace Bonham (SLIDE #45) [u]Nearing
the Issue at the Cockpit[/u] was painted in 1870. Several black
faces are seen witnessing the sports event. (SLIDE #46) [u]A Pastoral
Visit[/u] of black homes of the period. S. Jennings (SLIDE #47A)
[u]Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences[/u] again revives
the stereotype of the tired mammy in this 1792 composition. Here it
is the headrag, and other symbols of servitude that provide us with
the particular frame of reference for the stereotyped image. T.
Horenden's "Last Moments of John Brown"